It was on the day of February 22, 1973, when the Supreme Court of Ontario convened to review two cases brought forth from the Federal Court of Appeal, concerning the rights of two Aboriginal women. This case not only brought an issue of human rights to center stage, it dragged with it the idea that the Canadian Constitution embodied some blurred or contradictive values. Jeannette Vivian Corbiere Lavell and Yvonne Bedard, both born as North American Indians …
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…rth America Act. Unfortunately, even in a society as sophisticated as our own, discrimination on the basis of race and gender still exists. Although no longer present in any parliamentary documents, it's become the role of the Federal Government to try and snuff it out in society. Jeannette Vivian Corbiere Lavell and Yvonne Berard have paved the way for great changes to be made regarding the social well being and political protection of Native women.